Don't let the low travel miles fool you—the NFL schedule-makers did the Carolina Panthers dirty.

While everyone else is talking about how few miles Dave Canales and Bryce Young have to fly, we are exposing the absolute nightmare stretches hidden in this calendar. A devastatingly early Week 5 bye week means Carolina has to play 13 straight weeks of smashmouth football to close out the year. Throw in a brutal short-week trip to Lambeau Field on Thursday night and a mid-November gauntlet against Baltimore and Tampa Bay, and you see how the NFL set up major rest traps for this young squad.

Can the Panthers survive the 13-game ironman streak and repeat as NFC South champions, or did the schedule-makers just derail the season?

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